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The BBC - Quality of news articles...
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:27 pm
by jtaylor
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle ... 975835.stm
Errors (non-exhaustive):-
For the British public, the drip-dip of casualties in Basra was suffered without an objective that was clear.
The difficulties of the Iraq operation has led to a falling out of allies, with two British general criticising the US plan for the occupation of Iraq as "intellectually bankrupt" and "fatally flawed".
Who's proof-reading this stuff??
J
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:42 pm
by Mrs C.
No-one?
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:50 pm
by Jeeves
Wouldn't surprise me, the BBC are probably cutting costs by not employing anyone to proof-read their stuff.
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:10 pm
by blondie95
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:51 pm
by sejintenej
There has been plenty of condemnation of the BBC recently (for example the decision to pull the plug on a global warming programme because it could be viewed as biased) but I was really shocked to see what was listed as being on the Sky Parliament channel about 5.45 this morning:
Royal Opening of the Welsh Ass
The poor Queen - what will they have her doing next?
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:15 pm
by J.R.
With Prince Charles being the Prince of Wales, the mind boggles !
